This book is informative, creative, inciteful, and is totally void of any reverence for the art and religion of Vodou. The author makes bold errors in the origins of certain aspects of Vodou that are offensive to a native and practitioner. For example, the author says "the fetish is of Bakongo origin" of the Bantu tribe (who have origins in South Nigeria) are actually native to Benin/Togo. Something inherited by the loa Agassou. The author stresses a Bantu connection when in reality Haitian Vodou is not Bantu. The author references the text of other historians who have made clear in their works what this author gets wrong. Thus, the errors feel like an attack on what is already established. The "Vodou can borrow from Christianity" is equally as offensive considering Vodou was a science and physics before Christianity and it was the template of Vodou used to teach Christians more about the gnosticism of their adopted religion. Again, the author cites sources that clearly define and establish this. This author put more effort into making Vodou palatable for an audience who most likely sees Vodou as a code to be cracked than actually understanding what Vodou truly is. The author believes in the power of Vodou and rightfully so. It is the only power to go head to head with it's European/Anglo Saxon powers and win. The church had to accept that either the Vdoou God was stronger or that the Vodou God was in fact the same God and had preferred a people NOT within the Church's agency. The author does subtly allude to this in their otherwise disappointing understanding of Vodou, separate from practices it predates and/or existed simultaneously alongside. I want to reiterate that the author cites sources as a basis and then completely ignores the context of said sources to make Vodou more palatable to their audience as well as fit into a physics they are familiar with. Vodou is a science that is dependent on its own ABSOLUTE truth and not the personal truth of an ambitious author. AYIBOBO

(Horrible demonization of the Zobop. I mean it was extremely offensive. The author failed to add that the Zobop are not evil. The author also says Houngans don't use Black magic, demonizes Bizango, but quotes Max Beauvoir who was the Houngan Supreme of His time as well as the HEAD of the Bizango order. The author was lazy with this. A vanity project. An ode to the authors own ego with Vodou as a stepping stone and Yahweh as a cosign)